The upgrades you pickup while playing differ in type and color. You got engines, shields and weapon upgrades, each is available in either red green or blue. In order to use the blue shields you will have to pick up blue shields upgrades and make sure not to accidently mix in a red or green one because that would reset your shield lvl back to 1. If youre playing uniform (easy) mode you dont have to worry about the type of upgrade since only color matters and each upgrade will improve everything by 1 (you still have to stick to only one color). Hope that helped
Wish it was but apparently that's what I have been doing and I have had zero progress on my bar shown on any attempt towards this. Just to be sure I understand correctly; I basically should only grab blue pick ups and nothing else right? Its hard to tell what's a gun, shield or whatever and I'm playing on an iPad, to me they all look fairly the same. I'm not picking up any other color pickup besides blue and even have the magnet active, yet any attempt at this isn't even showing progress on the achievement per attempt. Is the shield supposed to look like a bubble around the ship? Because I've only ever encountered that with the green pickups... I don't know what I am doing wrong here... I've literally been struggling with this since release and can't seem to make any headway on this achievement. Between this achievement and the shoot down 100 missiles one, I can't seem to pass either of these (and I know I have shot down more than 100 missiles in one round on several plays as I've even counted)! Edit: nevermind, figured it out! Just need to have shield buff coupled with a pair of shields in order for shields to actually work on ship. Shields by themselves don't seem to do the job!
This game is a gem. Still a bit rough, but I keep coming back to it. Now I've unlocked most of the ships (Heart of gold and Friend still missing, facebook doesn't work), but I keep playing nearly everyday. Critics : money isn't of much use, as soon as you have the magnet, the parts are coming directly to you. I just unlocked the freeze ray, and as soon as I unlocked it, I had the 5 freeze rays in the same game. There should be some things you can only buy, layouts, weapons, I don't now. I say it again, but the Tooth is too powerful for a beginning layout, even now only the Crab can compare. Players should get it later in the game to have a sentiment of progression. Some weapons are useless, as said earlier the fuel cannon is too dangerous, the drones are worthless, and the machine guns not powerful enough. The contact weapons are fun, but the ball and chain has a weird way of handling, and slows the maneuvers too much. I'd love some more contact weapons, so I could put only turrets and contacts on my ship and ram some conformist ass ! 1 mach 2 engine more would be nice for symetry, please. As some have said, for now it is difficult to know the exact effect of the powerups, I use them but I don't know if they're effective. For example, what's best, two shields with a powerup, or three shields ?
Ditto, just did it a few minutes ago myself! Congrats! As an aside: does anyone know if the Spin Gun achievement is broken? It seems pretty self explanatory yet it is not unlocking no matter how many times I equip, rearrange and reposition the gravity and anti-gravity guns! Edit: again, never mind, just read back in the thread that it is bugged!
The blue shields are smaller "bubbles" around the shield block itself (rather than around the whole ship). The progress meter was bugged on that achievement, which is why it looked like you were making no progress (my apologies). If you put 4 blue shields on your ship, you can usually unlock that achievement within the first 100-150 kills. Just make sure you let lots of stuff hit you.
With the possible exception of the Tooth layout, all of these points will be addressed in the next update.
Nope, you can place it anywhere on your ship and it will always be slowly but steadily repairing your health. They also stack.
What do you mean "stack"? I just tried stacking one auto-repair part on top of another and it won't let me.
On boss 6 with maxed blue upgrades. 174 enemies dead. had well over 15-20 enemines on screen. The screen is now black and I cant see anything but the UI. I can shoot and "move" but nothing dies and neither do I. Pause menu works. I broke the game Edit: Ipad 3
By "stack", I mean if you have 2 or 3 on your ship, the repair effect stacks (i.e. you'll repair faster). The physical blocks don't stack.
Pretty much. Its rather easy to unlock and seems like the best choice until you get the anarkist. I also used the facebook ship with good results.
Spin Gun unlock So I have pretty much everything unlocked except one thing.... the Spin gun that requires the use of the grav and anti grav guns during one round. I equip both of them and play and nothing... does it require a certain ship, a certain type of placement on a certain ship? A certain play mode? I'm confused because no matter what ship I put it on it doesn't unlock the spin gun.
